Figure 5
From: When familiarity not novelty motivates information-seeking behaviour
(a) Relationship between confidence and information-seeking behaviour in Experiment 3. The subjective confidence ratings obtained following a forced-recall attempt, had an inverse-U relationship with subsequent information-seeking behaviour. The red curve represents the equation \(information\, seeking\, proportion\,=\,45.54+16.67\times c+52.97\times c\times (1-c)\), which reflects the average parameter estimates obtained when the quadratic equation was fitted to the data from individual participants. (b) Relationship between confidence and familiarity—novelty difference measures from Experiment 3. The familiarity—novelty difference measure was obtained at each confidence level by subtracting the number of novelty trials selected for exploration from the number of familiar trials chosen, and then dividing this difference by the total number of trials at the given confidence level. This was then multiplied by 100, to convert to a proportion. The red curve represents the equation \(familiarity-novelty\, difference\, measure\,=\,4.57+26.29\times c+45.78\times c\times (1-c)\), which was, once again, obtained from the fitting of the quadratic equation to each participant's data. In both (a) and (b) the blue diamonds represent individual participant data points, and the red circles represent the means across participants. Error bars = ± SEM.
